Establishment of political and diplomatic relations between Lithuania and France in 1918-1920: Exchange of mistrust by Vilma Bukaitė

“…Hence, the first Lithuanian government expected to receive the due support and recognition from the most powerful winners of World War I, including France. However, one of the most influential architects of 'New Europe', the French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, conceived this new Baltic state as a potential territory of democratic Russia, which the French allies seeked to restore, and later on of Poland. …”
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Zangezur and South Araz Transport Projects: Problems of Implementation in the Context of Relations between Armenia, Iran and Azerbaijan by M. M. Shumilov

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The French Policy in the Republic of Armenia and Transcaucasia in 1919–1920 by Gayane Makhmourian, Ashot Melkonyan

“…Pursuing its national interests, coined by the Prime Ministers A. Millerand and G. Leygues, France proceeded from the nature of the Ottoman Empire and the course of the civil war in Russia, where the Bolsheviks built new society and strived to restore Russian statehood in the Transcaucasia. …”
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The Gazette Littéraire de l'Europe and Anglo-French Cultural Diplomacy by Jonathan Conlin

“…Led by Prime Minister Choiseul, the regime encouraged discussion of state policy and in particular of the lessons to be learned from her erstwhile enemy. …”
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Anglo-Free French strategy in Northwest Africa: operation against Dakar, september 1940. by Brahim HAROUNI

“… After the fall of France in 1940, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, tried hard to persuade Marshall Petain to continue the war from North Africa but his effort was of no avail. …”
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The american duplicity vis-a-vis the colonial problem of the Maghreb during the second world war by B HAROUNI

“…It is in  this perspective that President Roosevelt’s representatives, in Vichy and Algiers promised to restore France in its pre-war integrity; while, at the same time, the American president, associated himself with the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in issuing The Atlantic Charter in which occupied countries and colonised peoples were promised self-determination and freedom.       …”
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The president in Lithuanian political system: Search for position and power by Alvidas Lukošaitis

“…On the other hand, in „Premier-presidential" regimes, Prime Ministers dispose of far more powers than in Lithuania. …”
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Quelques ressorts discursifs et argumentatifs de la discrimination envers les femmes par le « savoir ». Éric Zemmour, les mots pour construire la haine by Julien Longhi

“…After the broadcast, on Saturday September 28, 2019, of Eric Zemmour's speech at the “Right Convention”, a large controversy is relayed, in the media and on social networks, on the advisability of such diffusion. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe described these remarks as "nauseating and deeply contrary to our idea of ​​France and the Republic". …”
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Competing Knowledges and Sovereignties in the French Pacific Oceanscapes by Pierre-Yves Le Meur, Valelia Muni Toke

“…A national strategy regarding the deep‐sea was developed in 2015 and updated in 2020 through a working group led by the General Secretariat for the Sea (under the authority of the prime minister), in which the authors of this article participated. …”
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French security management and the integrated approach to national security in the contemporary security environment by Vladan M. MIRKOVIĆ

“…Such a massive security system is coordinated by a wide and complex network which enables the integration of multiple actions at horizontal and vertical axes into a single activity under the authority of the President and the Prime Minister. At the same time, the strategic objectives are threatened by hybrid warfare, which is perceived as a strategy of foes (states and non-state actors) who combine military and non-military tools in order to achieve political aims at the expense of the national interests of the Republic. …”
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Reading the diplomatic reports of Petras Klimas from Paris by Algis Kasperavičius

“…Voldemaras, whom the French considered the culprit of the politics of repressions, from the post of Prime Minister in August, 1929. Personally, P. Klimas didn’t support the strict measures, but he tried to serve Lithuania, not one or another political trend. …”
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Rethinking Burlesque Forms in Louis XIII ballets: Dance, Music, and Politics in Burlesque ballets, 1625-1635 by Rose Pruiksma

“…Influential analyses of the burlesque ballets performed at the court of Louis XIII argue that the ballets functioned as space for expression of noble resistance to the absolutist monarchy of Louis XIII and his prime minister, Cardinal Richelieu. Closer attention to the actual historical contexts and the identities of the noble dancers involved with respect to some of the lavish burlesque ballets performed at court by the king and select group of nobles offers ways of rethinking the politics and meanings of burlesque performance to take into account the ways that the burlesque developed within court and noble cultural institutions and practices. …”
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LEGITIMACY DEFICIT AND INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE: CHALLENGES AND WAYS TO OVERCOME by Nataliia Kononenko, Oleh Kononenko

“…The author considers the duality of executive leadership as a key problem when both the president and the prime minister have the authority to manage the government, which creates a blurred system of responsibility and destabilizes the political process in general. …”
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“HOW GRAND IS OUR DESIGN FOR EUROPE?”: INTEGRATION PLANS OF THE GREAT BRITAIN IN THE LATE OF 1950S by E. V. Khakhalkina

“…At the same time the emergence of the plan reflected the desire of the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan to weaken the struggle inside political establishment between supporters and opponents of the country's full-fledged participation in the European integration and take the lead in the integration movement from France. …”
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Emotions d’élus et découpage territorial. Recompositions intercommunales dans l’aire urbaine havraise by Lilian Loubet

“…In addition to the significance of the boundary and the project, a majority of elected officials from one of the inter-municipalities sees it as being a forced absorption (backed by the former mayor of Le Havre, today the Prime Minister of France). Discussions about the questions of territoriality, identity (urban versus rural), and of sovereignty take place in a context where the affective dimension plays a significant role. …”
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Borodáč’s Chlapci na Stráži by Maťašík Andrej

“…Following the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia, based on the decision of the prime ministers of France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany, had lost ethnically mixed Czech-German borderlands, President Eduard Beneš had offered his resignation and had gone into exile, and Slovakia had got the autonomy it was promised by the Pittsburgh Agreement (an obligation that had gone unfulfilled for long). …”
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Semi-presidential institutional models and democratic stability: comparative analysis of Lithuania and Poland by Vykintas Pugačiauskas

“…This article evaluates the performance of semi-presidential arrangements in two newly-democratic Central and Eastern European countries, Lithuania and Poland, and addresses the question whether stable democratic performance of the regime can be attained in circumstances that differ from those of "model" semi-presidential countries such as France. Both Lithuania and Poland experienced constitutional conflicts between presidents and prime ministers, considered as inherent features of semi-presidential models. …”
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